Interfacial thermal resistance (ITR) is the main obstacle for heat flows from one material to
another. Understanding ITR becomes essential for the removal of redundant heat from fast …

The urgent need for ultrahigh thermally conductive materials to keep up with the rapid
development of the electronics industry has led to the exploration of hexagonal boron nitride …

Over the last decade impressive progress has been made in the theoretical understanding
of transport properties of clean, one-dimensional quantum lattice systems. Many physically …

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

The reduced dimensionality makes low-dimensional nanomaterials possessing diverse
unusual size-dependent transport properties, due to the distinct quantum confinement …

For several decades, thermoelectric advancements have largely relied on the reduction of
lattice thermal conductivity (κL). According to the Boltzmann transport theory of phonons, κL …

In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Graphene exhibits extraordinary electronic and mechanical properties, and extremely high
thermal conductivity. Being a very stable atomically thick membrane that can be suspended …

Significant progress has been made in the past two decades about the micro/nanoscale
heat conduction. Many computational methods have been developed to accommodate the …

Following the emergence of many novel two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene,
interest has grown in exploring implications for fundamental physics and practical …